Bat-Manga!: The Secret History of Batman in Japan

by Chip Kidd

Book Overview

The two hottest genres in comics gleefully collide head-on, as the most beloved American superhero gets the coolest Japanese manga makeover ever. In 1966, during the height of the first Batman craze, a weekly Japanese manga anthology for boys, Shonen King , licensed the rights to commission its own Batman and Robin stories. A year later, the stories stopped. They were never collected in Japan, and never translated into English. Now, in this gorgeously...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0375714847
• ISBN13: 9780375714849
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Pantheon Books
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.6" x 11.0"